Last night the 2016 edition of the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Fashion Awards was held in NYC and many American designers were awarded. Not surprisingly Alessandro Michele and Gucci got this year’s International Award, and among other laureates were Thom Browne (menswear), Mansur Gavriel (Accessories) and special prizes went to The Business of Fashion and David Bowie’s memory. 2016’s fashion icon was also to be announced and this year they managed to keep that prize winner a secret up until the actual award. The winner was none other than Beyoncé, hurray!

Beyoncé held a fantastic acceptance speech about how much her mother’s clothes meant for her, and even though I knew that Tina Knowles sewed clothes for Destiny’s Child, I had no idea that she early on had a dream of becoming a fashion designer. Beyoncé also thanked and expressed her support to all designers out there. See the full acceptance speech above or read it at Vogue.com here.

I think Beyoncé is a very worthy winner, she has only in the last year time and time again showed everyone how much clothes actually can convey. One of several samples of that is her halftime performance during Super Bowl where she wore the same type of outfit that Michael Jackson had back in the 90s, matched with black leather caps not unlike the ones the Black panthers wore in the 70s. And of course her latest visual album Lemonade, where she completely (and literally) crushes everything in a magic dress from Roberto Cavalli.

Fashion is magical and I’m sure Beyoncé has even more tricks up her sleeve. You slay Bey.

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This is so lovely! She did pop out as a fashion icon during the year of 2015. I am so happy she made a surprise appearance to the CFDA awards the day before her concert in New York (not far from where I live)!!